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footnotes

footnotes is the plural of footnote.

footnotes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of footnote.

Meaning of footnote

Noun

footnote (plural footnotes)

  1. A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.
    • consult the footnotes for more details
  2. (broadly) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
    • a mere footnote in history
    Synonyms:
    asterisk
  3. A qualification to the import of something.

See all 4 meanings of footnote

Questions about footnotes

What is footnotes the plural of?
Footnotes is the plural of footnote.

Words near footnotes in the dictionary

  1. footnails
  2. footnote
  3. footnoted
  4. footnoter
  5. footnoters
  6. footnotes
  7. footnoting
  8. footpace
  9. footpaces
  10. footpad
  11. footpadded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footnotes (page history and authors); footnote (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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